{"id":79103,"date":"2018-05-26T11:02:46","date_gmt":"2018-05-26T18:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/a-sensor-could-monitor-gut-health-via-engineered-bacteria"},"modified":"2018-05-26T11:02:46","modified_gmt":"2018-05-26T18:02:46","slug":"a-sensor-could-monitor-gut-health-via-engineered-bacteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/a-sensor-could-monitor-gut-health-via-engineered-bacteria","title":{"rendered":"A sensor could monitor gut health via engineered bacteria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-sensor-could-monitor-gut-health-via-engineered-bacteria.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Esearchers have devised a new way to get a sneak peek into what\u2019s going on deep in your digestive system, creating a swallowable sensor that, with the help of engineered bacteria and a tiny electrical circuit, can detect the presence of molecules that might be signs of disease and then beam the results to a smartphone app.<\/p>\n<p>The device, which scientists validated in pigs, remains a prototype and needs to be refined before it could be used in people. But the researchers, who <a href=\"http:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/cgi\/doi\/10.1126\/science.aas9315\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported their work<\/a> Thursday in the journal Science, combined innovations in synthetic biology and microelectronics to create a modular platform that could be adapted to identify a wide range of molecules.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2018\/05\/24\/swallow-sensor-gut-smartphone\/\">https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2018\/05\/24\/swallow-sensor-gut-smartphone\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Esearchers have devised a new way to get a sneak peek into what\u2019s going on deep in your digestive system, creating a swallowable sensor that, with the help of engineered bacteria and a tiny electrical circuit, can detect the presence of molecules that might be signs of disease and then beam the results to a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}